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Shot this cool looking hoverfly(?) on a walking trail in a park in Malaysia. Any help on ID appreciated

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It's a Microdon sp. If Menno Reemer comes by he might be able to give you a species name. For that you should change the title to Microdon sp.
Greetings

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This is a male of Microdon auroscutatus Curran. Very nice to see this picture, as I have hardly seen any pictures of living tropical Microdons before! Will you add it to the gallery?

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Thanks Gerard and Menno

How do i add it to the gallery? I'll try to explore on that in a bit.

Edit: pls feel free to add it to the gallery.

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Today we collected in Thailand Microdon which is looking the same.
sp. or auroscutatus?

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If it looks exactly the same, it will be M. auroscutatus, as it seems to be a fairly common species in Thailand. But I can't be sure, of course, without a picture or a specimen.
By the way, if you find any other Microdontinae, I'm very interested to see the specimens. I'm working on worldwide taxonomy & phylogeny of the group. Especially I'm very keen to receive recently collected specimens for DNA-work.

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Thank you, Menno.
I'll be pleased to let you examen material, but there are two problems:
1. My deep ignorance in Syrphidae - for example, I don't know who else belongs to Microdontinae exept Microdon.
2. It seems to me that during 4 seasons in Thailand, it is first dpecimens of Microdon collected. Well, may be second, if I forget some. So, my test, not as , I'd wish (nice fly indeed).